Summary and Analysis of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped: Based on the Book by Garry Kasparov

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About Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped by Garry Kasparov:
 
Winter Is Coming tells the story of Vladimir Putin’s stunning rise to power—and is a dire warning. Beginning with the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian dissident and chess champion Garry Kasparov traces the circumstances that allowed Putin to flourish, including Russia’s aborted attempt at democracy under Boris Yeltsin and the Chechen Wars.
 
Despite Putin’s constant and ruthless assaults on civil liberties and international diplomacy—including his botched hostage negotiations in Beslan, corruption and voter fraud, the imprisonment and murders of protesters and opposition figures, and the annexation of the Crimea region in Ukraine—the West and the UN continue to acquiesce to his demands, making him stronger.
 
Learn why Garry Kasparov likens Putin to Adolf Hitler of the 1930s and why he believes that if no one steps in to stop him, the consequences could be disastrous.
 
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Apr 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504018838

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Context

In Winter Is Coming, retired Russian chess champion and current chairman of the Human Rights Foundation Garry Kasparov paints a troubling picture of conditions in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where government funds are funneled to the president’s oil tycoon cronies and opposition activists are imprisoned—and often die under suspicious circumstances. The actions of Putin and his administration are under sharper scrutiny after the election of US President Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly expressed his admiration for the president of the Russian Federation.

With claims of Russia hacking the United States’ 2016 election, possible conflicts of interest for various politicians and cabinet members, and potentially inappropriate contacts between American leadership and those in power in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin remains front and center in American politics and on the world stage.

If the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the United Nations (UN) fail to stop Putin, he will continue his authoritarian rule and his expansionist designs. Garry Kasparov articulates several feasible strategies for curtailing these ambitions, including sending troops to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty and ending all further engagement with Russia via economic and travel sanctions.

Overview

Garry Kasparov begins Winter Is Coming with a short history of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Russia’s flirtation with democracy before outlining the rise of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative and deputy prime minister to Boris Yeltsin. When Yeltsin resigned in 1999, Putin, who was well regarded by the Russian people for his leadership during the recent war with Chechnya, was made acting-president before being officially elected in 2000.

The early years of his reign were marred by two botched hostage negotiations involving Chechen separatists, one in a Moscow theater in 2002 and another in 2004 at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia. Russian troops at both sieges killed hundreds of innocent hostages.

In 2008, after Putin had served two terms, his prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, was elected president, though it was widely understood that Putin was still in charge—a belief that was cemented when, in 2012, Putin was elected to a third presidential term (amid accusations of voter fraud).

Since then, Putin has been actively suppressing his political opponents with imprisonment and (allegedly) murder while continuing his propensity to invade and conquer by annexing Crimea in 2014. Despite this direct attack on a sovereign nation, and the shooting down of a commercial flight over